The game looks to be running on a more modified Sigma 2 engine. 3 shots are of Ryu slicing up foot soldiers in a dark rainy city street. There's another with him climbing a wall with daggers. And the final shot is him running from some giant mechanoid spider thing.

60 frames per second.
Blood is back.
Difficulty level won't be toned down for casual gamers.
There will be both competitive and cooperative modes. One or both will support up to 8 players.
The store is gone. Weapons will upgrade over time.
Greater emphasis on Ryu's story. No other playable characters planned yet.
May feature Move support.

60 FPS - nice!

Blood - awesome!

Difficulty wont be cattered - very nice

Multiplayer - god no, the co op was fine but competitive and all that? meh

Store is gone - I dont know what to think. Weapons be upgraded over time might be how much you use them. If so, Dragon Sword will be my first to max out as I use that as my primary as usual lol

More on Ryu's story - always nice to know what is going on with him.

PS Move - LOL, I expect regular motions...etc. but it would be interesting, but still wouldnt buy one.

60 frames per second.
Blood is back.
Difficulty level won't be toned down for casual gamers.
There will be both competitive and cooperative modes. One or both will support up to 8 players.
The store is gone. Weapons will upgrade over time.
Greater emphasis on Ryu's story. No other playable characters planned yet.
May feature Move support.

Difficulty: Interesting. I thought this was going to be easier to pick up and play. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding Either way great news for the core audience.

Multiplayer: Competitive eh? I wonder what they are planning. As for Co-op PLEASE for the love of all that is pure and decent have local. I want to play with my brother.

Store: Depends I suppose. They may be planning other ways to heal yourself. I'll wait and see on this one.

No other playable characters planned yet: Cyber seriously big favour here. Tell TN I will do ANYTHING to get other playable characters. I understand this is Ryu's story but come on they were great fun to play as DLC chapters, anything. They don't even need to be playable in story. Just mission mode. I'll be happy.

Possible move support: does this mean I'm also right about kinect support LMFAO! XD But great for those that want it I suppose. Maybe some interesting gameplay elements there.

Is it on Cafe as well? If not I'll buy on PS3 or 360 don't care which.

It sounds so awesome, where are you getting this form? Which magazine are the scans in? and is it sold in the EU? Don’t make me go out and buy every PS magazine,

So yeah slicing confirmed, it was all sounding so good until I read the part about the store, come on just leave the store alone, it was fine in NG2 and you tried to fix it in NGS2 but it didn’t need fixing and you ended up making it worse, and no store means no Muramasa which isn’t good,
Im assuming the weapon will upgrade itself after you killed number of enemies with it, which isn’t the worst thing that could be done with the upgrade system but that’s not NG,

Im not a fan of multiplayer but it’s nice that they there bringing the multiplayer, I think in multiplayer we might play as generic ninjas which you can change out armour and stuff like how it works in Halo

And seriously Move, I kid you not reading Move in the post just now reminded me that I actually own Move that’s how good it is, I can’t even remember i own it…. And I got Kinect its awesome I play Kinectimals, its grate fun but im going to tell you now there is now way what so ever NG will work on Kinect, and any way didn’t TN already say that they won’t going o include motion controls?_________________

Oh gods if this gets banned over here I SWEAR I will bring down the Government for this! Tengu will definitely have to import it and it would be too weird if this got into Sweden with all this blood shed when DOA got banned due to child pornography laws. What do you know of it Sath?

It was bad enough when they banned Manhunt but this blood bath looks like the kids will find this "cool". They shouldn't ban it just because children (who shouldn't play this game anyway) get their hands on this and start playing it. Seriously they are going to get their hands on it anyway.

mohsin's right that other one is an xbox magazine.

Anyway I don't know why they didn't just come out and say "its on PS3 and 360" when we knew that from the very beginning. They said platforms would be announced early this year only for platforms to be announced now. Much later than when they said. Holding it off to E3? Sure thing. At first I thought nothing of it. Perhaps they thought they would get speculation Microsoft has it for timed exclusive again (which is not right at all because all the Sigma stuff does is annoy everybody). Or they may have been trolling this entire time (which is actually pretty common of Team Ninja given their "surprise" at the end of Sigma 2).

There could be another explanation of course. Either this was all a publicity stunt (which is fair play by all means) or its on something else as well. Leaving specific consoles out of mention until E3, the same time when NGP and Cafe are being shown off? Oh yeah, well if new consoles are being shown, there is a chance (and its a 0.1% chance but still a chance) its possibly on one of these as well maybe. Just hazarding a guess here. No proof whatsoever other than my own stupid speculation.

The only playable character IMO should be through other modes and not campaign!
I hate being forced to play as someone I dont want, for me Ninja Gaiden is Ryu and I want to play as him exclusively.

But it would be fun to play as others like in Mission Mode or something.

PS. I swear to god if Hayashi screws up this games content like outfits and not adding Mission Mode I will be angry.
The only thing I hate Sigma 2 with a passion is because he didnt add Mission Mode from NG2, NG3 has to have it.

So I bought OPM today but there was no NG3 sadface, also there was no new OXM and I already got the current copy of OXM and it wasn’t in there, so it’s probably in the next edition, OPM next comes out in the UK on 8th June and OXM 10th June but by then it would be E3, hopefully some quality scans will end up on the net soon,

Although I think it was a good call on Hayashi’s part to go with only Ryu I am really going to miss other playable characters, I think what Hayashi is doing is trying to start everything again although it’s not exactly a reboot of the game and a part of that is going back to only Ryu,

I am going to miss Ayane and Momiji and even Rachel cos she impressed me the most in NGS2, and obviously there’s no chance of Kasumi and ahhh… (crying) no Hayate playable which iv been yearning for so long, but I think somehow other playable characters will make their way in to NG like multiplayer or DLC… NG4
I can struggle and live with no other playable characters but what I refuse to live with is the complete exclusion of Ayane, Kasumi and Hayate I demand they be at the very least mentioned in NG3 if not given a staring/supporting role!_________________

Looks good so far. I'm loving the focus on the blade. Also I'm happy that they aren't putting in other characters. I love ninjas (I have one tattooed on my arm) but Kasumi, Ayane and Hayate the amnesiac rockstar are pretty bland designs to me. I know some of you are gonna flip out about that comment but whatever. NG is Ryu, if I want the others I'll play DoA. Here's hoping they delve deeper into what makes Ryu do what he does. Of course we won't get a story on caliber with FF7, that's asking too much, but no jarring plot holes please._________________"Does it come in black" Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins

Ninja Gaiden is Ryu's story and nobody elses, and having other characters playable would make me sad, or atleast bad ones.

Granted, Ayane was the best character in Sigma 2 other than Ryu.
She was fast and had style, so she fits.

Even though I love Momiji's design of all the Team Ninja girls, she was boring to use and Rachel needs to GTFO out of NG already.
As for Kasumi, she could be good if done right.

But as far as single player goes, I want Ryu to be the only character from start to finish, BUT, add another mode called "Kunoichi Mode" there you can play as Kasumi, Momiji and Ayane, makes perfect sense to me.
That way, both Ryu only fans will be happy and those who want other characters.
Just do NOT force other characters to the player who dont care for other playable characters.

Though I do wish they could add Hayate, he is made for an action game just like Ryu.
His DOA4 CGI ending proves this, make it happen Hayashi!

With E3 around the corner I am sure anything they show from NG3 I will be hyped and keep watching the videos constantly lol

Shame that actual scans haven't hit the net yet - photos got my pulse up for a moment, but I'd like to read what it says.

Be awesome if that was Tairon again. I also think that focussing on Ryu's the best path Hayashi could have taken. Hopefully Rachel will be in the story, maybe with a few cameos of Momiji and Ayane here and there, but I'd rather have them focus on Ryu's gameplay as opposed to having everyone playable.

DLC once the main game's complete, though? Absolutely. Nothing stops the Warhammer.

The “no other playable characters planed as of yet” is telling me we will get other playable character

He confirmed twice in two different interviews that Ryu is the only playable character in Ninja Gaiden 3.

But, in MP I am guessing all the girls will be in it, maybe even Kasumi.

I hate Hayashi with a passion of how he thinks.
Whats up with one guy and the rest is girls, screw this if he plans on making the girls as important as Ryu in NINJA GAIDEN.
If anything, add Hayate and I dont care who else he adds. There has to be another awesome ninja as Ryu and only Hayate comes to my mind.

@Kayin:

Christie? really? thank god you are not in charge of the game, thats even worse than Hayashi's idea of having Rachel playable lol.
Christie has no relationship to Ryu and his enemies, she has nothing to do with the series.
Dont add random DOA favorite to NG just because Kasumi is all of a sudden in.

Kasumi has relationship with Ayane and Ryu AND Hayate, so it makes sense if she was in it, but Christie? no.